19 May 2007

I ran across this quote today and figured since it affected me so, I thought I should share it. It's from Plato's Republic.

Our aim is to prevent our Guards being reared among images of vice - as itwere in a pasturage of poisonous herbs where, cropping and grazing in abundanceevery day, they little by little and all unawares build up one huge accumulationof evil in their soul. Rather, we must seek out craftsmen with a talent for capturing what is lovely and graceful, so that our young, dwelling as it were in a salubrious region, will receive benefit from everything about them. Like a breeze bringing health from wholesome places, the impact of works of beauty on eye or ear will imperceptibly from childhood on, guide them to likeness, to friendship, to concord with the beauty of reason.